Anybody A Frank Wakefield Fan?

[Sam Bush Fan!]

I Realy Like Frank Wakefield He is Like the best mandolin player ON EARTH:mandosmiley:.I even got to play with him and i am on youtube with him :popcorn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTDNeN6abO8 :popcorn:
If You are a Frank Wakefield fan to PLEASE! reply

[Mike Bunting]

Yep. And he has a great soul too. I met him again for the second time just a month before you did at the Monroecamp in Owensboro. I met him the first time in Montreal in 1964. When I mentioned this, he replied in his inimitable style "I thought I looked familiar."!

[LateBloomer]

I'm a fan, currently listening to a Red Allen/Frank Wakefield CD in the car.

[Sam Bush Fan!]

I Have The One Where He Is At A coffee shop from the 80's

[Sam Bush Fan!]

He is A realy good Guy

[woodwizard]

Oh yeah! Frank's a GREAT! picker

[Sam Bush Fan!]

He is the best that's what i think

[SternART]

Frank is very BAD, he is a TERRIBLE person, and an even WORST picker.
(my humble attempt at Frankspeak) :cool:

[Sam Bush Fan!]

You Had Me Scared

[farmerjones]

"You want me to kick this one off or should I?"

:))

Oh heck yeah! Frank's the MAN! ! ! !

[barney 59]

When I was a guitar slingin' teenager (late 60's)an older musician friend of mine told me he had a house guest that he wanted me to meet. It was Frank Wakefield who became the first mandolin player I ever heard, playing the first mandolin I ever saw and over the next few days he gave me a little primer course in mandolin playing--He let me mess around with his mandolin a bit (So as it turns out the first mandolin I ever touched or "played" was a Loar!) & he told me that I had to get "one of these"and being somewhat intimidated by him I figured I better, so I did. 7-8 years later (1976) I got to perform with him in Vermont when a band I was playing with got billed along with him and David Nelson at a club in Burlington. I haven't seen him since. He obviously was the biggest influence to me as far as playing the mandolin is concerned.

[Don Grieser]

He's my enemy. He plays tolerable mandolin and I give him a lesson every chance I get. Hello.

[Andy B]

What Don said. Frank is a great teacher, an incredibly perceptive and intuitive musician and just generally. He's a long time favorite of mine.

Andy

[mandolirius]

I love Frank's playing. He also gave one of the best workshops I've ever attended.

[mandolooter]

I've heard he's and acquired taste..I acquired!

[Timbofood]

Good bye,
I am so sad that Frank was born! He is, without exception, the most horrid personality in the world. As for talent, worthless, his mandolin is pretty terrible too!
Hello
(To quote Frank hisself... "Man, you are wiiiise")

[AlanN]

Never did meet him or see him in 1974-6 in Saratoga Springs. He wasn't playing with some local boys in the bars downtown. R0007 was not the record I listened to over and over again.

He did not inspire me.

[Dan Johnson]

he still isn't in saratoga... and you didn't hear him when he wasn't on stage with peter rowan, tony rice, and rickie simpkins next year... who am i kidding? i'll never be a backing talkwards expert!

[mandroid]

words back talkwards good said be ...

F.W./Yoda ;)

:popcorn:

[stewart]

All you enemies of Frank better not buy his new CD "Ownself Blues"!

Seriously, I just got it from County Sales and it's blowing me away. It's got the Beethoven piece (scuse me, I meen "Bayto") he's been performing for a while as a guitar/mando duet, and a Bach piece for full band, and a new recording of New Camptown Races. The other 10 tracks are new Frank originals that sound great.

The backing band is probably the best he's had on record since the Good Ol' Boys lineup with Reno and Wise in '75: Michael Cleveland on fiddle (twinning with himself on several tracks), Mike Munford on banjo, Audie Blaylock on rhythm guitar, Darrell Muller on bass and Jordan Tice on lead guitar. Nate Leath (fiddle) and teenage hotshots Taylor and Jessie Baker (mando & banjo respectively) also appear.

Anyone else heard this yet?

[allenhopkins]

Only saw him once live, 45 years ago with the Greenbriar Boys. He was the one with no laces in his shoes.

Don't remember all that much about the evening, but I was impressed. They were working as a trio, no bass, and I thought his mandolin playing was more chordy and Monroe-like than Ralph Rinzler's, who'd preceded him with the Greenbriars. But at that point I didn't even own a mandolin, and was hardly a connoisseur. Only other mandolin players I'd seen live were Bobby Osborne and Joe Val.

[Marcus CA]

I've never seen him live, but one of my earliest mando memories is seeing him on the David Frost show (I think) in the early '70's, playing one of his "Jesus Loves His Mandolin Player" tunes. It was absolutely ear-opening.

[mandozilla]

Frank's a character for sure not to mention one of the best pickers in BG ever IMHO. :grin:

I seem to racall a story about him where he baked his Loar in the oven in pusruit of the 'Woody' tone that WSM's Loar had...anybody know if that's true? :disbelief: And did it work? :))

I haven't yet but I intend to learn 'New Camptown Races' soon...:cool:

:mandosmiley:

[swampstomper]

I just came from a mandolin workshop with Frank in Ithaca, NY hosted by Troy Harris of Harris mandolins. I won't try to describe the experience except to say -- if you get a chance to sit down in an intimate setting with Frank, as he is preparing for his 75th birthday ... do not miss the chance!! A really nice guy, hilarious, loves to teach and joke around at the same time, and... what a right hand!!

[hlebowi2]

All you enemies of Frank better not buy his new CD "Ownself Blues"!

Seriously, I just got it from County Sales and it's blowing me away. It's got the Beethoven piece (scuse me, I meen "Bayto") he's been performing for a while as a guitar/mando duet, and a Bach piece for full band, and a new recording of New Camptown Races. The other 10 tracks are new Frank originals that sound great.

The backing band is probably the best he's had on record since the Good Ol' Boys lineup with Reno and Wise in '75: Michael Cleveland on fiddle (twinning with himself on several tracks), Mike Munford on banjo, Audie Blaylock on rhythm guitar, Darrell Muller on bass and Jordan Tice on lead guitar. Nate Leath (fiddle) and teenage hotshots Taylor and Jessie Baker (mando & banjo respectively) also appear.

Anyone else heard this yet?

Now you FDRW fans better not read this, and don't go to this show!:

CD release show will be held May 2, 2009 at the Garrett Park Town Hall in Garrett Park, Maryland. To celebrate the release of the CD a copy will be included with the $20 admission price.

Details for the show are:
Date: May 2, 2009
Location: Garrett Park Town Hall
10814 Kenilworth Avenue
Garrett Park MD 20896
Time: 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.)

Howard (one of Frank's smallest enemies)

[Hans]

I'm one of his worst air conditioners. He's pretty bad at banjo too.



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"Foots" :))

[hlebowi2]

Seriously, I just got it from County Sales and it's blowing me away. It's got the Beethoven piece (scuse me, I meen "Bayto") he's been performing for a while as a guitar/mando duet, and a Bach piece for full band, and a new recording of New Camptown Races. The other 10 tracks are new Frank originals that sound great.

The backing band is probably the best he's had on record since the Good Ol' Boys lineup with Reno and Wise in '75: Michael Cleveland on fiddle (twinning with himself on several tracks), Mike Munford on banjo, Audie Blaylock on rhythm guitar, Darrell Muller on bass and Jordan Tice on lead guitar. Nate Leath (fiddle) and teenage hotshots Taylor and Jessie Baker (mando & banjo respectively) also appear.

Anyone else heard this yet?[/QUOTE]

Yes, I have it too.
It is really great (or bad, whatever).:grin:
Howard